Year 9 IST - Assignment One

This assignment was last updated on Tuesday 20 February 2018.

If any changes are made to the assignment they will be itemised here for ease of identification.

Friday 16 February 2018: The assignment was published

Tuesday 20 February 2018: The assignment was updated:

This assignment requires you to code a single webpage which complies (and validates) with the XHTML 1.0 Strict standard.

Read this section carefully, it describes what you need to do for this task.

Here you can find various hints and tips to complete the assignment tasks.

This assignment is worth 25% of your Semester One assessment for this subject.

You must place the following declaration (in the form of a comment) at the top of your submitted HTML file:

Make sure you understand the implications of this declaration which you are including and digitally signing (see the Academic Honesty section of this document for more information).

If you do not include the student declaration at the top of your HTML file your assignment will not be marked and you will receive zero.

To submit your assignment you do not need to do anything, we will view your submission in your ED STEM workspace. However, you must not change your workspace after the due date and time. We can see the revision history on your workspace and will be actively checking the last time you modified the workspace.

Late submissions will incur penalties as per the school assessment policy: Students will lose 10% of the total value of the assessment per day late, or part thereof. Be aware, if you do not submit your assignment by 8:45am on Tuesday 3 April 2018 that is counted as a day late and will attract the 10% penalty. Weekends equate to 2 days. On the second day of non submission parents will be informed. A student may be directed to study support to complete an overdue assessment task. After 4 days, a student who has not submitted an assessment task will receive an academic detention. Work completed during academic detention or submitted more than 4 days late will have 50% of the total value of the assessment deducted from the student’s score. If the work remains incomplete despite the academic detention, the student will receive zero marks for the task.

This course’s philosophy on academic honesty is best stated as "be reasonable." The course recognizes that interactions with classmates and others can facilitate mastery of the course’s material. However, there remains a line between enlisting the help of another and submitting the work of another. This policy characterizes both sides of that line.

The essence of all work that you submit to this course must be your own. Collaboration on homework, assignments, and projects is not permitted except to the extent that you may ask classmates and others for help so long as that help does not reduce to another doing your work for you. Generally speaking, when asking for help, you may show your code to others, but you may not view theirs, so long as you and they respect this policy’s other constraints. Collaboration on the course’s final project is permitted to the extent prescribed by its specification (for example, if you choose to do the project in a group).

Below are rules of thumb that (inexhaustively) characterize acts that the course considers reasonable and not reasonable. If in doubt as to whether some act is reasonable, do not commit it until you solicit and receive approval in writing from your teacher. Acts considered not reasonable by the course are handled harshly — such as an unsatisfactory or failing grade for work submitted, along with the issue of an academic detention.